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Sharing our latest work tracking DNA damage inheritance by Live+QIBC www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Huge congrats to @apanagopoulos.bsky.social, M. Stout and all co-authors for this tour de force! Beautifully summarized by @s-j-aitken.bsky.social & E. Reilly www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Excited to share that our latest work on post-mitotic DNA synthesis (post-MiDAS) at repetitive and difficult-to-replicate DNA sequences such as telomeres and centromeres has been published: www.nature.com/articles/s41....

New Postdoc & PhD openings coming up. Very grateful to the @snsf.ch for continuous research funding! PhD students will be recruited through @lifesciencezurich.bsky.social, postdoc candidates are encouraged to get in touch by email (contact details on www.altmeyerlab.org/). Thanks for sharing!

Excited to finally share our preprint on mapping the genetic interaction network of the DNA damage response with combinatorial knockout screens led by Sam Hayward, Alina Vaitsiankova, and Tomas Lama-Diaz! www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

New preprint out!🧬 How do cells keep replicated sister chromatids linked for DNA repair while folding 3D loops for gene expression? Extrusion folds DNA but separates sisters, while cohesion connects them, risking mutual interference. How do they coexist?🧵👇 🔗 doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.02.722390 1/6

How do cancer-associated eccDNAs arise? Our work shows that single-strand DNA damage in repetitive sequences can trigger i-loop formation and eccDNA generation. What started at telomeres may reflect a much broader principle across the genome and help explain how ecDNA may emerge in cancer. 1/2

Our H1 paper is out #ScienceAdvances: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @masaashimazoe.bsky.social et al. reveal that linker histone H1 acts as a liquid-like glue to organize chromatin in live cells. 🎉 Fantastic collab with @rcollepardo.bsky.social @janhuemar.bsky.social and others—huge thanks! 🙌 1/

Excited to announce: the EMBO Workshop: DNA damage response in cell physiology & diseases - 12–16 Oct 2026 - in stunning Sounio, Greece - fabulous speaker speaker lineup representing the cutting-edge of genome stability research: Abstract deadline: 17 May meetings.embo.org/event/26-dna... Join us!

Excited to share our new Nature study! 🧬 We (sidrituruci.bsky.social et al) discovered that CFAP20 helps clear stalled RNAPII, preventing harmful clashes with DNA replication machinery. This protects cells from R-loops and genome instability. Full paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH. And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you. A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n

📢 Telomere community: Registration and abstract submission are now open for the EMBO Workshop “Telomere function and maintenance in health and disease”, May 25–30, 2026, in Lazise, Italy 🇮🇹. Looking forward to an exciting meeting! Please re-post. meetings.embo.org/event/26-tel...

🚨 Exciting news! Our latest study is out in Nature Communications! We reveal how specific BRCA2 mutations can hijack transcriptional programs—beyond their role in DNA repair. 🔗 rdcu.be/eT1R9 #CancerResearch #BRCA2 #Genomics

We are recruiting a tenure track professor in the broader area of molecular biology @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de at Heidelberg University! www.nature.com/naturecareer... Please share and apply!

‼️ Excited to share our new paper out now in @science.org ‼️ We describe a new tetrameric RAD51 paralog complex – XRCC3-RAD51C-RAD51D-XRCC2 – which caps the end of RAD51 filaments. Link: www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.... Thread ⬇️ (1/8)

A comprehensive genetic catalog of human double-strand break repair | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The world has lost its most powerful advocate for nature and hope. Yet many remain who will continue her legacy and I know she will continue to inspire generations more.

Come and join us at the Barts Cancer Institute @qmbci.bsky.social ! Our medical school, part of Queen Mary University of London @qmulfmd.bsky.social is hiring 10 professors!! www.veredus.co.uk/job/job-747a/. Contact me for a chat if interested.

Thrilled that our work is now finally out in Nature Comms! rdcu.be/eG3vP We reveal cryo-EM structures of the MRN complex bound to DNA & TRF2 - showing how DNA breaks are sensed and regulated at telomeres. Fantastic work by first authors @yilanfan.bsky.social @filizkuybu.bsky.social & Hengjun!

Congratulations to Dirk Görlich and Steven L. McKnight, 2025 #LaskerAward winners! - “for discoveries that exposed the structures and functions of low-complexity domains within protein sequences” 🧪 @mpi-nat.bsky.social #Lasker2025 #LaskerLaureate #structuralbiology #phaseseparation

My first post on bsky to share our latest research in @nature.com: “DNA2 enables growth by restricting recombination-restarted replication” - defines DNA2’s essential function & elucidates links with primordial dwarfism and cancer. Thanks to the lab, collaborators & @ukri.org @acmedsci.bsky.social

📢Deadline extended! Our 2nd Spatial Genome Organisation Conference deadline has been extended to 25 Sep, dont miss out on joining our fantastic line up of speakers, alongside Karim, Matthias and Irene in what is set to be a fantastic meeting this October! #SGO25 Final slots ➡️https://bit.ly/3JJzYR4

@efapostolou29.bsky.social @thecesarelab.bsky.social we're looking forward to your presentations at this fantastic meeting!

JOB ALERT 🚨 We are hiring TWO principal investigators in cell, molecular, systems, or chemical biology in Toronto, Canada at @sinaihealth.bsky.social. We provide a generous startup, fully funded salary and academic appointment at U of Toronto. www.nature.com/naturecareer... Please repost!

Deadline approaching for #SGO25 🗓 31 Oct – 03 Nov 2025 📍Riviera Maya, Mexico Poster & Reg deadline: 01 Sept 2025 Details & Reg: bit.ly/45Mmhtv $250 registration grants available! Email amy@fusion-conferences.com with your name, position & current research topic.

Advertisements for 2 tenure-track assistant professor positions at Vanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences: www.nature.com/naturecareer... www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Another exciting research article from a member of the #RepliFate network! The Altmeyer lab identified the CNOT1-CCR4-NOT complex as a multi-level suppressor of the 53BP1-p53-p21 signaling axis. Check out their findings here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

New work from the lab: Identification of CNOT1-CCR4-NOT as a suppressor of 53BP1-p53-p21 signaling @cp-cellreports.bsky.social. Congratulations to first author Antonio Galarreta and to all co-authors. www.cell.com/cell-reports.... #Microscopy #RNAiScreen #Condensates

Our new non-denaturing nanoscale 3D DNA tracing technology provides single-cell (and sister-chromatid specific!) readout of chromatin structure with 10kb genomic resolution - Check it out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congratulations to Kai and Oyvind!!

📣 We are recruiting new group leaders in Innovative Biology! RNA biology Epigenetic regulation Cell cycle regulation Cancer, immunology Virology Application and information ⬇️ application.igmm.cnrs.fr @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social

New @nature.com An ingenious way to track DNA replication patterns at the single-cell level that leads to cell heterogeneity and daughter cells that can potentially give rise to cancer www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔬Under the microscope: DNA damage tracked through cell generations🔬 It was a pleasure to write this #NewsAndViews with our PhD student Emma Reilly, online today @nature.com rdcu.be/em0qi @cruk-ci.bsky.social @spjacksongroup.bsky.social @yalepathology.bsky.social @yalecancer.bsky.social

Looking very much forward to the 2nd edition of the Fusion Conference on Spatial Genome Organisation #SGO25 @fusionconf.bsky.social @karimmekhail.bsky.social @chiololab.bsky.social. Early bird registration closes soon: June 2nd, 2025. Slots available for selected talks from abstracts: bit.ly/4492G6i

IMBA is recruiting a Junior Group Leader! Are you interested in starting your own lab, pursuing curiosity-driven basic research in the life sciences? Apply by May 18: imba.science/beagroupleader #hiring #biology #research #groupleader #europe

We are excited to announce the details for this year’s #DGZ International Meeting, a very special one as we are celebrating 50 years of DGZ! Join us in October in Heidelberg, where the DGZ was founded in 1975. Check the speakers line-up etc. at the poster. Registration: shorturl.at/EHUzb #DGZ50

We’re excited to share our work where we investigated the mechanisms of chromosome motion by tracking all #chromosomes, mapping their interactions, and live cell karyotyping, using #AI based denoising, segmentation and registration, published in Nature Cell Biology. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interested in these or related topics and looking for (or know somebody looking for) a PhD position? We have openings and an approaching application deadline @lifesciencezurich.bsky.social: www.lifescience-graduateschool.uzh.ch/en.html. Please repost. #PhDLife #LifeScience #Switzerland

1/10 Excited to share our latest - the first whole-body map of both DNA methylation and 3D genome at single-cell resolution.

Our new findings on how chromosomes get ready for cell division are now published in @cellpress.bsky.social! Congratulations, Kai, @andibrunner.bsky.social and everyone else involved! 🤩 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Come start your lab in beautiful Strasbourg 🇫🇷 www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Thrilled to share our lab's first preprint, led by an exceptional PhD student Gita Chhetri and with the support of wonderful collaborators, we find that replisome function is rate-limited by strand-specific PCNA dynamics. Hope you will enjoy reading. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Brief teaser:

How are chromosome breaks repaired and how is their repair influenced and facilitated by nuclear and genome dynamics? Fantastic initiative and collaboration with @karimmekhail.bsky.social, @chiololab.bsky.social, and @lablegube.bsky.social. @natrevmcb.bsky.social Link to article: rdcu.be/edViW

I put together a small guide on how to get started with Fiji. Please distribute to anyone who might benefit form this! zenodo.org/records/1477... #imageanalysis #fiji #imagej #training

We have an exciting opportunity for a new independent group leader with an interest in structural/molecular biology and machine learning to join our Division of Structural Studies at the @mrclmb.bsky.social! 🥳 Re-posts appreciated. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

New discovery from our #CDlab reported in Cell @cp-cell.bsky.social today: SMC motor proteins have a left-right ‘gearbox’ and can switch direction in DNA loop extrusion! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/

1/Delighted to announce the newest paper from our lab, “Homologous recombination promotes non-immunogenic mitotic cell death upon DNA damage”, is out today in @naturecellbiology.bsky.social, www.nature.com/articles/s41....

Mark your calendar: the next Egmond DNA repair meeting will take place in 2026 from April 19 - 24! You can pre-register to receive announcement here: forms.lumc.nl/lumc2/Egmond Registration will open by June 2025/

www.academics.com/jobs/univers... Please help us find a new colleague at Mainz University. Thanks! #evolbiol

🧪1/ 🚨New paper on ecDNAs from our lab! We reveal a strategy to engineer extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) amplifications in cells & mice. Let's dive in! Let’s dive in! 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@mrc-lms.bsky.social is hiring! Are you looking to start your own research group? Come & join us! Fantastic research, wonderful facilities & super supportive colleagues. Deadline 13th Jan. Get on it! lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...

📣 Please share: We’re hiring a tenure-track Group Leader in Multicellular Systems to explore the molecular and cellular mechanisms driving the formation, maintenance, or destabilization of tissues, organs and organisms. Apply at: www.fmi.ch/education-ca...